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Comments On Sep 05, 2013:I'm a female with very long slender fingers and I can never get gloves that fit me! The female gloves finger length are always way too small and the mens gloves are just too big in the palm area. So I ordered size XXL in this glove and I have to say they fit pretty well! They are a tad too big in the palm but the velcro area is pretty long so I can tighten it very well to make up for the extra material in the palm. The finger length is perfect! FYI: the length from the bottom of my palm to the top of my middle finger is 7.5 inches or 19cm. They look pretty cool design wise. If you are looking for a very protective glove this is NOT it. The material is thin which will be great for summer riding but I don't think they would hold up in a bad crash. I gave this glove 4 stars instead of 5 because the logo patch is already coming off even though I have yet to take them out for a ride.
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Comments On Aug 19, 2013:Brought these for my niece's birthday, matched to whole outfit. She was lost for words. As for holding up, held up pretty well so far. Eliminates lite vibration. She has no complains. Helped boost her confidence
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Comments On Feb 10, 2013:I've been wanting some black and hot pink gloves and these are perfect. I needed some new gloves for an upcoming race anyways and I'm glad I ordered these. I've been wearing them in and the first few times of wearing them were uncomfortable a little bit around the wrist but it's all good now. It looks like they will last as long as my others ones did (about 4 years)!
Additional Comments On Feb 25, 2013:One of the "O'Neal" patches on the velcro part ripped off already :(. Not a big deal, though. Otherwise, they are still great gloves.
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Joe Sorvillo felt unprepared.
The Florida man had been on UAB Hospital's heart transplant list for only a few weeks when the phone rang. He had planned to wait six months before getting a new heart. A year, maybe. But instead, on Aug. 25, 2011, he found himself hopping on a friend's twin-engine plane to make it to Birmingham in time for surgery.
At the hospital, medical staffers quickly began prepping him for the transplant. They tested his blood, shaved his body, put him on the operating table. They waited for the heart. They reminded him that, until it showed up, no one was certain it would be a match.
But when Justin Sollohub's heart arrived, Sorvillo said, they knew. Same blood, same enzymes, same size.
"It was perfect," Sorvillo said. "I'm alive because of Justin's gift."
One year later
It's been a year since Anniston police officer Justin Sollohub was fatally shot during a foot chase with a suspect. One year since he died at UAB, where the 27-year-old gave his last gift, his heart.
Sorvillo, 60, was in Birmingham this week for his monthly check-ups — tests to ensure his new heart is strong and healthy.
Meanwhile, in Anniston, his new, extended family — Sollohub's family — went through the weekly routines of work and sports practices and, on Friday, a memorial for their son. Sorvillo had planned to meet them for dinner Friday to remember all that happened a year ago. But his wife fell ill and plans of gathering were abandoned.
Still, the families were connected on this anniversary eve as they separately reflected on the man who, when you get right down to it, had so much in common with Sorvillo: the big smiles, fearless attitudes. Their initials and the letters "SOLLO" in both of their last names. The vibrancy of their lives. The heart.
"More positive came out Justin's life than you can realize," Sollohub's mother Jeniffer Morris said in an interview earlier last week. "We don't think and stew on his death so much as his life."
'Sorrow and great gratitude'
Sorvillo saw the Anniston officer's funeral on television last year, watching from a hospital bed at UAB. He had learned right away he had Sollohub's heart, because the story of the shooting was "all over the news."
And Sorvillo's nephew, a state trooper in Florida, received email updates any time any officer in the country died in the line of duty.
"He sees Justin was killed in Anniston and has been taken to Birmingham, and he knows I was sent to Birmingham," Sorvillo said. "So he put two and two together."
Confronted with the images of Sollohub's grieving family and friends, Sorvillo faced the brutal connection between his life and the young man who died.
"How sad was it that this guy had to die, and how his last act was to save my life?" Sorvillo remembered thinking. During his check-up Thursday at UAB's Kirklin Clinic, Sorvillo cried as he recalled the funeral — recalled watching it, masked after surgery and hooked up to machines, fresh stitches on his chest.
"You feel like, well, do you deserve it? And you feel sorrow and great gratitude at the same time."
Sorvillo fell silent. He inhaled. Exhaled deeply and wiped his tears.
"It's pretty hard to put those feelings together," he said.
Thank yous and closure
Not every organ recipient finds out the identity of his donor.
Alabama Organ Center spokeswoman Ann Rayburn didn't have statistics on the number of donor and recipient families who choose to remain anonymous compared to those who decide to meet. But through her work with the state's nonprofit organ donation network, Rayburn said she's seen meet-and-greets between recipient and donor families happen more often over the past several years.
"I think there's just been a lot more awareness and openness in that we, as an industry, realize there are benefits to them meeting," Rayburn said. "Initially, people worried about appropriateness, but in reality it gives good closure to donor families and to recipients, the opportunity to say 'Thank you.'"
Families who want to meet must first write anonymous letters to each other, using the organ center as a kind of middleman. Then, they have to sign release forms to authorize the center to give out their identities and contact information.
"Sometimes it takes 10 years after the donation has occurred for the families to meet," Rayburn said.
'Seeing somebody live'
Morris wrote her letter to Sorvillo — as well as to the recipients of her son's kidneys and liver — right after Sollohub died.
She felt compelled to reach out to them amidst the tragedy, the chaos of losing her son. She only heard back from Sorvillo, who jumped at the chance to meet these people he had followed on television and in news stories.
The Sorvillos met Morris, her husband, Byron, and youngest son Blake in February, around what would have been Justin's 28th birthday.
Byron and Blake used a stethoscope to listen to Sollohub's heart inside Sorvillo's chest.
"It was awesome to see how much Justin was able to affect somebody's life," Morris said.
Morris wasn't seeking closure when she reached out to Sorvillo and the other recipients — that came when she watched doctors take Sollohub off life support. Neither did she mistakenly believe "Justin lived on" through the people now using his organs, she said.
"It was just wanting the pleasure of seeing somebody live," Morris said.
'One of the lucky ones'
For the first time in years, Sorvillo can climb a long flight of stairs. He did so Thursday morning on the steps at the Kirklin Clinic: down and up and down again, as he went from chest X-rays to the waiting room to the pharmacy and back to waiting.
"I couldn't do that before," he said to a Star reporter, gesturing to the staircase behind him.
"Before, I could only do this" — he stopped five steps from the top, adopted a belabored, shuffling movement to climb them — "and by the time I was done, I would be out of breath, really unable to breathe."
It's just one example, a small sign of the renewed strength Sorvillo has thanks to Justin's heart.
The improvement in his health, Sorvillo said, is apparent every day. He and his wife own a wildlife refuge for endangered species of wolves and tigers at their home in Ponce De Leon, Fla. He spends long days taking care of the large, wild animals — from feeding them 1,500 pounds of chicken to arranging private tours and maintaining the 125-acre grounds.
Each month, he drives the three-and-a-half hours to Birmingham so doctors can make sure his body isn't rejecting his new heart. He is strong enough to make the trip alone now, although on Thursday, his wife waited at the hotel while Sorvillo finished his check-up.
So far, so good, Sorvillo said, smiling at a Kirklin Clinic staffer he recognized.
"I'm one of the lucky ones," he said.
Unexpected gifts
Sorvillo had been dying since 2008, when he caught a cold on a business trip in Arkansas. He coughed for three weeks, went to the doctor and was incorrectly diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a serious breathing problem. But eventually, tests showed a virus — known as cardiomyopathy — had damaged his heart, enlarging and weakening it. He spent years battling illnesses brought on by his heart trouble — pneumonia, bronchitis, breathing problems. He couldn't walk much.
His wife and volunteers took over for him at work.
"I didn't think I was dying, but I guess that's what I was doing," Sorvillo said.
In April 2011, he had a mini-stroke one morning, as he tried to put up the coffee pot. In July, medical professionals put him near the top of the list for a heart transplant. As Sollohub lived his last month, patrolling the streets of Anniston, Sorvillo was in and out of the hospital, a tube buried in his arm to provide his sick heart with a constant, crawling supply of medicine.
"I had prayed on all of this and accepted that if I didn't make it, then this was the way things were supposed to be," Sorvillo said.
And then, on Aug. 25, the first phone call came at 3:30 a.m., jarring Sorvillo and his wife awake.
They had a possible donor. The second phone call, more than four hours later: They had a heart.
For her part, Morris said, she has no regrets after meeting Sorvillo, only awe and gratitude for the donation process.
Sometimes, these families have found, even the gifts you pray for are unexpected.
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Meet the fastest Water-type in NU, complete with usable offensive stats and a movepool to present itself as a threat. Having acquired Hydro Pump and resolved some move illegalities with Water Veil, most importantly that of Ice Punch, Floatzel can now combat numerous threats at once without sacrificing its effectiveness. With its access to a plethora of coverage moves, Floatzel can take on a wide variety of Pokemon by itself, blasting through them before they can move. Unfortunately, its frailty means it often loses to most neutral match-ups and bulky walls. Floatzel also faces competition from Simipour and Basculin as a fast, hard-hitting Water-type, and its awkward mix of higher physical Attack and stronger special movepool doesn't help it in that regard.
A mixed set offers the best overall combination of power and coverage against threats due to its ability to hit hard both physically and specially. Hydro Pump is Floatzel's strongest move against neutral targets, striking down Pokemon that Waterfall would fail to KO, such as Piloswine, Torkoal, and Scolipede. Ice Beam is stronger than Ice Punch against targets of equal defenses and hits Tangela, Torterra, and Exeggutor much harder; however, Ice Punch still has its uses, as it 2HKOes Roselia and +1 Calm Mind Serperior even with no investment, which Ice Beam fails to do. Crunch maims Jynx and specially bulky Psychic-types, such as Gardevoir and Grumpig, that can easily take Floatzel's other attacks. Hidden Power Grass is used for opposing Water-types that would otherwise wall Floatzel, such as Seismitoad, Wartortle, and Alomomola, whereas Low Kick dents specially defensive Pokemon such as Licklicky, Munchlax, Lapras, and Regice.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
When equipped with a Choice Band, Floatzel's Attack is boosted to very high levels. While this set looks like it suffers significant competition from the stronger Basculin, Floatzel has higher Speed and access to Switcheroo to set itself apart. Waterfall is Floatzel's main STAB and can strike down numerous targets. Ice Punch nails Grass-types and Dragon-types wanting to switch in on a resisted Waterfall and retaliate. Return is Floatzel's strongest attack against opposing Water-types and has more than enough power to take down Jynx. Floatzel's moves provide unresisted coverage bar Frillish and Shedinja, which are so rare that hitting them is irrelevant. Switcheroo, a unique move Floatzel has among Water-types, can steal the items of walls and lock them into one move, rendering them useless. This allows your set-up sweepers to set up freely, unhindered by the crippled wall's efforts to retaliate or survive. On the other hand, a Choice Band boosted Aqua Jet packs a punch and can pick off fast foes, although one must be wary about being locked into it and consider if Basculin is a better alternative for this due to its access to Adaptability.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
While its frailty might indicate Bulk Up won't help Floatzel much at all, it has the tools it needs to make this work. Bulk Up not only raises Floatzel's respectable Attack, but also beefs up its Defense so that it can take physical hits better, which is important for this set to function. Baton Pass is also vital to Bulk Up Floatzel's success, allowing it to bestow its boosts to a fellow sweeper to initiate a sweep or just get away from danger without losing momentum. Waterfall is Floatzel's STAB move of choice, as it is a very reliable move. Floatzel also holds the distinction of being the only fully evolved Pokemon in NU that can Baton Pass Bulk Ups, so it can help out a variety of physical sweepers that either cannot boost for themselves or appreciate the Defense boost to prolong their rampage. Floatzel also has access to Taunt, which is incredibly useful to prevent status, phazing, healing, or opposing setup sweepers. The main selling point of Taunt is how it turns the tables on bulky Water-types that would severely wall Floatzel otherwise, notably defensive Seismitoad with Scald, Earthquake, and Toxic, meaning Bulk Up Floatzel can actually lure in opponents for it to set up on. Other Pokemon such as Wartortle, Alomomola, Misdreavus, and Torkoal are easy targets to start setting up Bulk Up on and pass the boosts. Note that Floatzel can take a good deal of damage from the likes of Scolipede's Megahorn even with Bulk Up boosts, which is usually your cue to pass the boost to a teammate that can handle the threat better.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
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Me First is situationally useful for reflecting back certain moves of slower opponents, occasionally outdamaging Floatzel's own attacks, but is useless against moves its counters use and fails against faster opponents and attacks. Focus Blast is an option, but most of its targets are specially defensive or are hit harder by Hydro Pump anyway, limiting its usefulness. Aqua Tail can be used over Waterfall anywhere it is mentioned, but trading flinching and accuracy just for 10 increased Base Power is generally not worth it, especially when Floatzel can easily make use of the flinch chance with its good Speed. Pursuit can be used to trap Pokemon such as Jynx, but Sneasel does this better due to STAB and resisting its targets' STABs. Rain Dance can be used to power up Floatzel's STAB while doubling its Speed, but Floatzel doesn't have the bulk to set up rain for itself and must rely on teammates for the job. Agility should hardly be considered, as it is usually outclassed by Rain Dance and Swift Swim, and Ninjask is a better Pokemon for Baton Passing Speed boosts. Floatzel has the movepool to try a specially offensive set, but that is outclassed by Simipour, which has access to a greater Special Attack, better coverage, and Nasty Plot. Aqua Ring is a possible option on the Baton Pass set, but Floatzel usually prefers Taunt or extra coverage in that last moveslot. Flame Orb and Switcheroo is a gimmick, as it only burns once and at the end of the turn to boot, meaning Floatzel isn't taking weakened damage on the turn it Switcheroos.
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Floatzel mostly relies on quick clean KOs or a setup opportunity in Bulk Up's case. Water-types with strong neutral or super effective moves, such as Ludicolo, Samurott, and Earth Power Seismitoad, generally make for the best counters, provided they can take Floatzel's other attacks well. Be warned that the same defensive Water-types that wall offensive Floatzel to hell and back, such as Alomomola, Earthquake Seismitoad, Frillish, and Wartortle, risk being turned into setup fodder for Bulk Up Floatzel. Grass- and Electric-types can easily dispatch Floatzel, but all Grass-types are slower than Floatzel, whereas only two Electric-type (Zebstrika and Electrode) outspeed Floatzel. Grass-types with more balanced defenses that can tank Ice-type attacks, such as Meganium, Ludicolo, and Cradily, are considerably better answers than Tangela and Roselia, who fear Ice Beam and Ice Punch, respectively. All other Electric-types bar Zebstrika and Electrode usually have to take at least one unresisted hit (which they usually can if at high health) before KOing Floatzel or utilize Choice Scarf to outspeed it, making them more of checks than counters. Eviolite Electabuzz can take a strong hit relatively well and OHKO back with Thunderbolt.
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The first piece of advice Donald Watson has for construction and design professionals tasked with rebuilding homes and businesses along the Jersey Shore destroyed by Hurricane Sandy is "run like hell."
If that's not a viable option, the architect who wrote the book on flood mitigation, literally, said, consider climate science, plan for the worst, and design for resiliency.
There's a new reality property owners along New Jersey's coasts need to account for, one carried in with the surging tide from Sandy. The planet's climate is changing and how we build to account for it needs to change, too.
At Belmar Fishing Club, spared from Sandy, miraculously, perhaps, save for its fishing pier, architects, engineers and builders gathered for a flood mitigation and rebuilding symposium hosted by KSI Professional Engineers. Building codes that have stood as the standard for decades were washed away like so many homes along the shore. The new standards have yet to be defined.
Amid new flood elevation maps, analysis of climate data, changes to permitting at the level of local government, those being asked to build back better are themselves looking for a bit of guidance.
Consider everything, Watson said, and go further.
"We've had a nice, quiet 50 years, now we are obviously seeing rapid return of storms well beyond what we predicated. The trouble with Sandy was that it was not on our radar," the former chair of Yale School of Architecture's Master of Environmental Design Program and co-author of "Design for Flooding" said.
"What I'm advising is that we look right at the climate data, as best we can, and some of the climate data says big waves, more storms, higher surge, more frequently."
Sandy will come again, someday, and by another name of course. In some degree, hopefully, we'll be more prepared for a storm, realistically, that has more potential for destruction than Sandy.
The storm, called the worst to ever hit New Jersey, shouldn't be regarded as an anomaly, Watson said, and perhaps she'll be seen as a harbinger, the first of what will undoubtedly be a more regular occurrence.
Climate change is real, he says. The result is more tumultuous storms and rising oceans. In the next 50 years or so, the sea level is expected to rise between three and five feet. That's a conservative estimate. Watson said hydrology science is offering more dire predictions.
What that means in terms of construction is building beyond the estimates. No longer, he said, can architects, engineers, and contractors simply "build to code." The homes washed out to sea along the barrier island, the buildings located in mainland neighborhoods that had never before flooded but were inundated with four feet of water after Sandy, they, he said, were all built to code.
"I'm looking at the next wave," Watson said. "What's going to happen in three to five years?"
A good place to begin, Watson said, is with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new flood maps. FEMA recently unveiled its Advisory Base Flood Elevations, which will likely be established and introduced as the new federal Flood Insurance Rate Maps in 2014. Officials with the agency said the maps should be used by municipalities to help set new code standards.
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Coastal towns are designated by one of three different zones. Each represents of the kind of flooding that can be expected during a century storm, like Sandy. The X Zone presents moderate flooding hazard and, though varied, mostly applies to coastal properties well inland from the ocean.
A Zones are high hazard zones that could flood, but won't see significant damage unless there's, again, a storm like Sandy. The final zone is the V Zone. V Zones are high hazard zones that would be impacted by ocean waves during a one-percent storm. In FEMA's new maps, many towns like those long the barrier island are listed in the V Zone.
A problem some architects and builders are running into is just how high to build. Pat Cronin, a principal of KSI, said his firm retrofitted a house in Belmar prior to Hurricane Sandy, raising it more than 10 feet above sea level. FEMA's new flood elevation maps recommend houses in that zone be raised more than 15 feet. And, along with FEMA's flood maps come local interpretation. In Sea Bright, he said, the town has taken the flood maps and added two feet.
Evolving and accommodating for rapid change has suddenly become the most crucial element of the home building process. Though there's no way to know exactly what weather will bring, the best bet, for now, is planning for the worst-case scenario.
"I take FEMA guidelines under advisement," Watson said. "And then I add."
The best and smartest course of action when it comes to rebuilding the Jersey Shore, it would seem, is building up. And if New Jersey is looking for an example to follow when it comes to building up, it only needs to look south.
In the years since Hurricane Katrina crushed the Gulf Coast, a new construction boom dedicated to one job has sprung up. Simply enough, it's home elevation, the process of jacking up preexisting properties, stabilizing them with new pilings, and giving them the lift to avoid flood water. Using flood elevation maps as guidelines, contractors have elevated more than 4,000 structures throughout the Gulf Coast since Katrina.
Rod Scott is a hazard mitigation and historic research specialist who has spent more than two decades recovering buildings from flood damage. For years his work has been concentrated in areas like Louisiana, with Sandy and the reality of more frequent storms and flooding, the northeast, he predicts, will become the next hotbed for home elevation.
And really, it's a simple choice.
"We can either choose to be dinosaurs, and they'll look at us in museums one day," Scott said. "Or we can choose to follow this (new direction)."
In all, Hurricane Sandy damaged 15,000 structures in New Jersey and caused an estimated $37 billion in property damage. Some homes, like a number of those in towns like Mantoloking and Ortley Beach were damaged beyond repair, knocked off their foundations, carved up, or in some cases, washed out to sea. In those instances, the only option is rebuilding. But, for those who suffered flood damage but didn't lose their homes, serious consideration should be paid to lifting the house up.
Structural elevation is preferred method of restoration because it saves existing structures. Though the process, on average, costs tens of thousands of dollars, it's nothing compared to building a new home. It allows for the recycling of building materials otherwise destined for the dump.
But, home elevation, as an industry, doesn't really exist in New Jersey outside of a few available contractors. Certainly there's nothing on the level of what you'd find in the Gulf Coast, either. As the home elevation business takes hold, the proper attention needs to be paid to ensure that it's done properly.
The only solution to surviving is building smarter. But those doing the building need to be smarter, too. Following Katrina, private contractors along the Gulf Coast rushed to buy elevation equipment and, considering how new the entire industry was, were allowed to operate without much regulation. Houses were dropped and destroyed, six workers died from homes falling down on them.
By developing standards and regulations, Scott believes New Jersey can add a certain level of credibility to the structural elevation business. But, he cautioned, the steps taken by local and state officials shouldn't be to undermine what will assuredly be a boom business. With Sandy past and another hurricane season less than a year away, work needs to begin now.
"We don't need to limit this industry," he said. "We've got a bottleneck of too much to do and not enough industry to do it."
Official uniformity is key. Permitting and code enforcement could delay reconstruction and structural elevation efforts, Scott said, and with so many towns considering their options independently, a push should be made to develop some kind of cohesive system in regards to Sandy reconstruction.
Moving forward, many towns will have to decide whether or not they agree with FEMA's newly released flood elevation maps and are willing to accept them. Municipalities that don't accept FEMA's elevation maps may cost their residents valuable federal assistance.
What residents and contractors alike should consider is the rise of the cost of flood insurance, Scott said. Federal flood insurance is $20 billion in the hole and thanks to expiring federal mandates flood insurance for home and business owners alike is expected to increase significantly in 2013. This fact was established well before Sandy's arrival.
However, elevating homes a foot above FEMA's flood elevation maps can save property owners 20 percent on flood insurance, Scott said, providing even more incentive to not just rebuild, but build up.
A barrier to the structural elevation business in New Jersey is the lack of necessary equipment and machinery and companies to operate it. New Jersey has been impacted by severe storms and significant flooding over the years, of course, but the need for widespread home elevation hasn't presented itself like it has in the immediate aftermath of Sandy.
Climate is changing; the sea is rising. Storms like Sandy, previously known as once-a-century storms, will happen with more frequency and coastal flooding in New Jersey, for as many decades or centuries as the coast remains, will be a fact of life for those who call those areas home.
It's a new era for construction and design along the shore.
"What was impossible is now what I like to call the probable," Watson said. "Aren't you and I going to take action to respond to the probable? And the answer is yes."


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tank. The new line is coming from a 90 degree angle from the inlet pipe. Is it okay to just drill the side of the septic tank and insert the new line? The tank is currently used only by the kitchen.
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to the end where the inlet pipe attaches am I going to create any unforseen problems?
Does the baffle extend the width of the tank? Not all do!
Ralph's a nice touch. Who's got Ron Paul?
The tank is 40+ years old and made of concrete. So do I just open the access lid to check for how wide the baffle is?
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The Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) informatics system was developed to share data across the entire TBI research field and to facilitate collaboration between laboratories, as well as interconnectivity with other informatics platforms. Sharing data, methodologies, and associated tools, rather than summaries or interpretations of this information, can accelerate research progress by allowing re-analysis of data, as well as re-aggregation, integration, and rigorous comparison with other data, tools, and methods. This community-wide sharing requires common data definitions and standards, as well as comprehensive and coherent informatics approaches.
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emavilla on Mar 19, 2014 at 21:10:13
I agree with the others. This would be really cool as a tank top!
raven2182 on Mar 14, 2014 at 21:46:48
Bring back the tank top please!!
chamanc on Dec 22, 2013 at 05:18:34
Perfect sweater for my Pops this Christmas! :D
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Make more medium tanks not tees!
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My favorite tee!
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Ok, from top to bottom, we have the following:
German Type XXIII
Swedish Gotland or Västergotland Class
Soviet Akula (NATO code name Typhoon) Class (Think "Red October")
British Yellow Class (one boat, experimental LSD propulsion)
Soviet Shchuka (NATO code name Akula) Class
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We ordered a Girly Med for someone. She loved it, but we'd like to exchange for a Girly Large. We already clicked on 'request a re-print' of Girly Large, but please let me know how soon you might be reprinting them so I know how to proceed with our return/exchange. thanks! I am going to have to show her the fashion suggestion of the yellow glasses!
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I don't get it... I know the yellow one (I'm a huge Beatles fan), but I don't recognize any of the others.
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Should You Get Your Genome Mapped?
Genome mapping opens a brave new world in medicine.
Back in early 2010, molecular geneticist Michael Snyder, then a trim 54-year-old, decided to put his genetic blueprint under the microscope and make the results public. Swabbing saliva from his cheek with a sterile sponge and drawing blood to obtain his DNA samples, the Stanford scientist became the subject of one of the first clinical studies to analyze the blueprint of a healthy individual rather than someone known to be sick.
Snyder's study took advantage of recent technological advances that have now made it possible to rapidly and much less expensively sequence a genome—the instruction manual, contained in virtually every cell of a person, for making a human being. Containing some 3.2 billion pieces of genetic information, the genome determines a broad spectrum of human traits such as eye color, height, general health, and whether someone might be more likely to be a basketball player or a biologist.
What the Stanford researcher found surprised him. His genetic tests showed that he had a higher-than-average risk for developing adult onset, or type 2, diabetes even though he wasn't overweight, nor did he have any known family history of the disease. But during the 14-month study, in which Snyder's health was closely monitored using a battery of tests, his glucose levels spiked and remained high following a respiratory infection. Only after six months of increased exercise and a change in diet did Snyder's glucose levels drop back to normal, he and colleagues reported in the March 16 issue of the journal Cell.
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The $1,000 mark. Without the genetic testing, Snyder says, he would not have known of his diabetes risk or been able to address it so quickly. And with the cost of genome mapping already as low as a few thousand dollars and likely to reach a much-ballyhooed benchmark of $1,000 by next year, Snyder and other scientists see the procedure as a crucial part of medicine for everyone, not just the affluent or the curious.
Many experts, though, like Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego, caution that science is only in the embryonic stage of understanding the composition and inner workings of the human genome. Essentially, each person carries two copies of each gene—one from each parent—in every cell (except mature red blood cells). Within these cells, genetic information is divided into 23 pairs of smaller packages, called chromosomes, that store the 20,000 or so genes in the human body, along with other bits of genetic information. The genes in turn are made up of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, molecules whose two strands wrap around each other like vines, forming the iconic double helix structure. Using a four-letter alphabet, scientists have identified and labeled the four building blocks, or bases: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C), which combine in each DNA molecule according to precise rules, somewhat like the rungs on a ladder. An A must always seek out a T on its partner strand, while a G must always pair with a C.
If the bases are the musical notes that make up the genome's keyboard, then their exact ordering determines whether the genetic symphony is harmonious or discordant. Just as extra or missing notes can wreck a musical passage, an extra or missing A or T can increase a person's risk of developing a particular disease or, in rare cases, cause an incurable illness.
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The challenge with genome mapping is that large portions of the map reflect uncharted territory. Researchers understand the role of genes in the body fairly well: They dictate how proteins—the compounds necessary for building and repairing muscles and other tissue—are made. But protein-coding genes account for only 1.5 percent of the human genome. A lot of the action appears to be happening in the other 98.5 percent. Once referred to as "junk DNA," this vast but little-explored portion of the genetic blueprint is now believed to play a critical role in regulating gene activity and carrying out unidentified functions that contribute to a person's being predisposed to a disease.


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Police are vowing to find the gunmen responsible for the Mother's Day parade shooting in New Orleans.
Authorities released surveillance footage of the scene on Monday.
Revelers are seen fleeing and some fall down as they appear to run from a man wearing a white T-shirt. He then turns around and runs out of view of the camera.
Police are hoping someone might recognize the man, who is now considered a suspect.
Some 400 people came out to celebrate Mother's Day about a mile and a half from the city's famous French Quarter.
Nineteen people sustained injuries in the shooting, including two children.
Most were grazed by bullets. but three people were seriously injured.
Residents say they can't believe something like this would happen on a holiday.
This is the third high-profile shooting surrounding a holiday in New Orleans this year.
Five people were injured in a drive-by shooting following a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in January.
And four people were shot in February during celebrations ahead of Mardi Gras Fox's Jamie Colby reported.


text: Robert Kenner's documentary is an angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry. It seems that the use of (heavily subsidized) corn as a cheap universal feed for chickens, for cows, and even for fish, not to mention the corn products that seep into candy, soft drinks, cheese, and almost everything else, has made that particular package of starch nearly inescapable. Kenner has many outrageous things to tell us about industrial food, but the picture is perhaps most upsetting when we get a glimpse (largely from footage shot surreptitiously by workers) of the way animals are now raised. Chickens, for instance, never see daylight, but are mostly kept in long, dark, stifling sheds where they stand in their own waste, fatted with corn until they are slaughtered, in a mere forty-nine days. Cows are also jammed together in enormous pens, many of them sick from feed that violates a digestive system built for grass. Eric Schlosser, the author of "Fast Food Nation" (2001), and Michael Pollan, who wrote "The Omnivore's Dilemma" (2006), lay out the case with devastating authority, and, after watching a number of farmers and rebels who fight the system, one comes out of the movie in a state of admiration and rage.


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After completing an undefeated regular season by besting their division rivals LSU and Mississippi State. Then defeating their most bitter rival Auburn in a highly contentious Iron Bowl. And dominating the seemingly invincible Florida Gators with their Heisman Trophy winning quarterback. The Alabama Crimson Tide certainly earned their spot in the BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California where they faced off against the Texas Longhorns. The game started out good but things took a shocking turn when a big hit knocked Texas quarterback Colt McCoy out of the game for good. Alabama went on to easily claim a National Championship and complete Alabama's re-emergence as the premier college football program in the land.
Mill Creek (Ga.) four-star offensive lineman Kaleb Kim talks about his trip to Auburn for Saturday's A-Day game and choosing between the Tigers and Georgia next week.
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Alabama has finished atop the RecruitingNation class rankings the past three years, and if Saturday's monster haul is any indication, a four-peat is more probable than possible.
Headed into Alabama's A-Day game on Saturday, which drew over 73,000 fans, the Crimson Tide sat atop the initial 2015 class rankings released earlier in the week.
A class that already featured nine ESPN 300 pledges quickly jumped to 13.
Not only did coach Nick Saban pick up four ESPN 300s on the day, but he again showed that the Crimson Tide can attract the nation's best prospects.
Jeff Garrett announced his college choice on Sunday. He'll play his college basketball at Alabama.
Following his bird's eye view behind the offense of White 17, Crimson 13, Alabama Coach Nick Saban opened up to the media about the progress of his 2014 squad after 15 spring practices. "Nobody ever has a bad spring game," he began. "I think everybody needs to understand that in games like today, we really limit what we do on offense and defense, and we really don't feature players.
Four-star offensive tackle Chris Barnes has been to two Orange and White spring games in Clemson, last weekend being the most recent.
Jackson Harris, out of Columbia Central (Columbia, Tenn.) has 35 offers to his credit and recently made his top ten with Vanderbilt University in the mix. VandyMania.com caught up with Harris for the latest on his recruiting season.
Keaton Anderson is one of the top prospects in the state of Alabama and has become more and more of a priority for Nick Saban's staff of late. He's closing in on a potential commitment to one of the schools in his top five, and he was back in Tuscaloosa for another look at the Crimson Tide on A-Day.
Alabama added four commitments, each rated four-stars on Scout, in about a one-hour span on Saturday and the news sent shockwaves through the recruiting world. Several Alabama commitments, targets and others going through the process commented on what it was like to see Nick Saban and company making as big of a splash in spring ball as it gets.
Florida State transfer Jacob Coker watches from Bryant-Denny Stadium sideline.
Alabama's A-Day spring game produced mixed reviews but off the field, the Crimson Tide enjoyed one of the most successful recruiting weekends of Nick Saban's tenure in Tuscaloosa.
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eBay's DSE — Making IT Energy Efficiency a True Business Metric
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
There's a change in the way businesses look at energy efficiency this morning. From an IT conversation, it's becoming a business conversation. eBay is leading the way, but RampRate will play a part in it by embedding that language at higher levels in each organization we work with. Look at the live results on eBay's Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) Dashboard.
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It's not often that we get to be a part of something big and are able to talk about it. Sure, we negotiated groundbreaking deals for some of the biggest streaming events at the dawn of online video, saved buyers hundreds of millions in IT spend, and enabled the coolest online games to be available worldwide. But between confidentiality agreements and letting our clients take the credit, there's not much fame for RampRate. We have always boiled down IT to nuts and bolts and simplified measurements, always asking the question for our clients- How much are you saying that strategic thing costs? Now the language will be properly socialized amongst key stakeholders in every executives place at the table. Consensus drives decisions and today IT decisions become more actionable and measurable.
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Not allowed to use real candles in my apartment building. I bought two -- one for the kitchen table and one for a table in the living room. So easy to turn on. Liked the price too. Would also like to see a smaller size which would fit in my Lenox "candle" lamps.
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quite frankly though, .the best this about these clips is that rivers is playing guitar and pat is on the drums...i hope it stays this way.
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Brilliant! Been looking for these for a while.
Also, did Rivers really just describe "guitar wanking"?!
Ah right, no, not heard that one. I'm UK based, so "wanking" isn't regurlary used.:P
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Michael Randle, MD is the chief medical officer of Colorado Health Medical Group. He has served in that role since 2012. Prior to this role, Dr. Randle was co-medical director, Greeley region in 2010 and served as chief quality officer in 2011 for CHMG.
Dr. Randle has served on a number of boards and committees in the northern Colorado community including the PVHS physician development committee in 2008, and serving on the CHMG board of directors since 2010.
Dr. Randle's clinical experience began in 1989 at Southwest Medical Associates in New Mexico where he spent ten years before working two years at Lovelace Health System. He joined Greeley Medical Clinic in 2001, with an emphasis in internal medicine, where he practiced until 2012.
He is board-certified in internal medicine, forensic examiners and forensic medicine and is a fellow with the American College of Physicians. Dr. Randle was named in 2004-2012 as one of "America's Top Physicians".
Dr. Randle graduated magna cum laude with a degree in chemistry from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He received his medical degree from Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas in Dallas Texas. He served his internship and residency in internal medicine at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, and in 1988 was named chief medical resident.
University of Colorado Health employees dedicate themselves to providing patients and other customers with world-class care and service. Outside organizations recognize that, calling University of Colorado Health's hospitals some of the best in Colorado and even the best in the nation. Some of those accolades are listed below:
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Small Round Aluminum Bulk Head Wall / Ceiling Mount
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Small Round Aluminum Bulk Head is a wall or ceiling mounted die cast luminaire. Features sanded glass, stainless steel screws, and rustproof durable powder coat. Fully gasketed. Finish available in white, bronze, or black. One 60 watt, 120 volt, A19 lamp, not included. ETL listed. ADA compiant. Wet Location listed.
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NEW YORK—America's nuclear energy industry continues to operate safely and reliably, and the industry has a positive outlook, Marvin Fertel, president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute, told financial analysts today.
Fertel updated the analysts on steps being taken to make safe nuclear energy facilities even safer. He also provided attendees at an NEI-sponsored briefing with the industry's perspective on recommendations made earlier this month by the independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Fukushima Daiichi task force. The recommendations made in the task force's 90-day report are being considered by the agency's commissioners.
"The nuclear energy industry has taken seriously the accident at Fukushima and continues to support the recovery efforts in Japan. The companies operating the nation's 104 nuclear energy facilities already have taken a number of concrete actions to enhance safety during extreme events," Fertel said.
In the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, every U.S. nuclear power plant verified its ability to safely manage the impact of a severe event, regardless of its cause. Many deficiencies were resolved immediately, and many safety enhancements also were identified, Fertel said.
The industry also formed a leadership organization, known as the Fukushima Response Steering Committee, to coordinate the industry's response activities going forward. The Steering Committee, made up of representatives from the utilities, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the Electric Power Research Institute, NEI and the vendors' Owners Groups, will ensure that lessons that emerge from Japan over the ensuing months and years will be applied consistently at every facility so that nuclear safety is enhanced across the industry.
"Because what's happened at Fukushima is a broad issue, we've formed an industry leadership organization which is a coordinated effort to capture and apply lessons that emerge from Fukushima. That's an important effort for us to do and stay coordinated," Fertel said.
The NRC's initial stakeholder input meeting on the recommendations of the six-person task force will be held Thursday at the agency's headquarters in Rockville, Md.
Fertel noted that, in its interim updates and its 90-day report, the task force concluded that existing nuclear energy facilities are operating safely, buttressing safety comments already made by President Obama and NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko.
"We certainly believe our existing facilities are safe," Fertel said. "That doesn't mean we can't take lessons learned and won't take lessons learned from Fukushima and actually enhance safety even better than it is right now. There are improvements that make a lot of sense to us."
Potential areas of emphasis include coping time for station black-out conditions, responding to events that affect all reactors at a power station, enhanced flood protection, and improved training requirements for severe events, Fertel said.
"The scope of issues identified by the NRC's task force is consistent with the industry's assessment. Some items can be addressed in the near term and effectively implementing those actions is critical," he said.
Other issues require more substantial analysis than has been done—or has even been possible—to date, Fertel cautioned.
"Making sure we don't divert our staffs now from what they should be focused on is also critical. We need to make sure we stay focused on safety right now, not just changing things for the sake of changing things," he said.
The U.S. nuclear energy industry has continued to move ahead with various projects that require NRC oversight, Fertel noted. Since early March, power uprates that improve efficiency and increase a plant's electric generating capacity have been approved at two facilities, and operating license renewals have been approved for nine of the nation's 104 reactors. In addition, construction continues to progress in Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina on new reactors that should begin operating between 2013 and 2019.
"Our estimate for the past three years has been that, between 2016 and 2020, we were going to add four to eight new reactors in this country. We believe, pre-Fukushima, that was realistic. We believe, post-Fukushima, that is very realistic. Then, as you move out toward the 2050 time frame, you add a lot more nuclear facilities as you replace power plants that retire and as you meet growing electricity demand," Fertel said.
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This form of dgl helps with my reflux symptoms as I take it about 20-30 before I eat breakfast, in between lunch and dinner and before I go to bed. I believe it helps heal/soothe my stomach lining as I had insignificant tissue inflammation after an endoscopy/stomach biopsy a few months ago when I had been taking the dgl for almost 3 months prior with severe reflux. The GI expected to see more inflammation. I believe the dgl and taking organic aloe at night greatly helped.
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Well what do you know after taking this for a case of acid reflux my heart burn disappeared and the case of Angina I thought I had for decades was stomach related. They say a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down. This is candy like without all the extra calories. Better yet it does not make you dependent like the the over the counter acid reflux meds which actually in many cases worsen the condition as dumping calcium in the stomach or inhibiting hydrochloric acid(HCL) production turns up the volume on GERD. The stomach is required to be acidic for digestion of proteins. Calcium or the HCL inhibitor lowers the PH resulting in undigested protein hence more indigestion. The body response is to release excessive amounts acid to overcome OTC med and so condition becomes chronic and the meds stops working. This DGL allows the stomach to stay acid while encouraging production of more mucus to protect the delicate lining of your stomach and hence ulcer formation or even healing!
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Cellar/Tasting Notes An absolutely stunning nose of violets, creme de cassis, lead pencil shavings, forest floor and subtle new oak burst from the glass. The wine has great fruit, superb texture, a full-bodied mouthfeel and an extravagantly rich, concentrated palate with low acidity and ripe tannin.
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Chocolate, espresso roast, plum, fig, and black currant aromas are followed by a dense, rich, full-bodied Pomerol displaying superb purity, elegance, and noticeable but ripe tannin. There is not an astringent element to be found in this savory, layered, opulent 2006. It is ideal for drinking over..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Beychevelle's style is for elegance, and this wine epitomizes that character. It is sweet, soft, with light tannins, achieving a balance of black fruits and acidity, light in structure and depth."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "An opulent, ripe wine from the ever-improving Beychevelle. It is rounded with new wood flavors along with just the right amount of tannin. Deceptively soft, with a solid, dry character behind the fruit."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Midnight oil? Dense black purple to the rim, the 2009 Lascombes has enormous concentration, with loads of graphite, blackberry, and blueberry notes as well as hints of pen ink and truffle. The wine is super-intense, full-bodied, fleshy, and rich. This is another wine that will compete with the..
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Cheick Tiote versus Yaya Toure, Cristiano Ronaldo and Vincent Kompany's prestigious selection are our topics for Saturday morning's Press round-up.
With the Blues aiming to return to winning ways at Newcastle in today's early kick-off, well begin with the battle of two friends who will both aim to drive their team towards victory today – Tiote and Yaya.
The Daily Express reckon the victor of that particular individual duel is likely to also end up on the winning team, though more cordial rekations will resume after the final whistle.
Niall Hickman writes: "Tiote, nicknamed 'The Animal' by his Newcastle team-mates, cannot wait to get stuck into Manchester City's man-mountain Toure, who he has known since they were boys growing up in Africa.
'Tiote said: "He's a great player. It is always so difficult to play against him and we have to stick together as a team to cope. I'm very excited to come up against him.
'I spoke to him last week and we do talk on a regular basis. I have known both Yaya and his brother, Kolo, for many years.
'I first met Yaya when I was very young in the Ivory Coast and I grew up with him. When he was younger he was smaller but not as broad. Now he is big and tall and very powerful. He is much bigger now and it will be very tough against him, even though he is a very humble person.
'He is playing in a different position to where he has played in the past. He is a lot more forward than he used to be when he played in a more defensive position like mine. But it's not all about Yaya for City – they have so many excellent players'."
The same paper carries a very tenuous Cristiano Ronaldo story, too, though after reading it, it's hard to see where the thread has actually come from, as there's nothing of any substance contained within.
Nonetheless, Charles Perrin writes: "Manchester City will have to spend big if they are going to land Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo.
"Ronaldo, who joined Real for a world record £80m fee in 2009, has become increasingly unhappy with life at the Bernabeu even though he is considered alongside Lionel Messi the best player in the world.
"The Portuguese talisman has been courted by a number of clubs in recent weeks, most notably affluent French side PSG who are looking to sprinkle more stardust to their glittering squad. AS suggests it would take a bid of £160m to prise Ronaldo away from the Bernabeu."
Hmm… a story out of nothing, it would appear – so why include it? Well, it proves how easy it easy to add two and two and get 31 on a quiet day!
So we'll end with a factual story about skipper Vincent Kompany who, Give Me Football's Pete South reports, has won a place in the most prestigious team on the planet.
He writes: "Just one Premier League player, Manchester City's Vincent Kompany, has made it into the World Soccer Team of the Year, which has been announced today.
"The magazine's XI, voted for by a team of journalists, coaches, officials and former players from around the world, is led by Ronaldo, Radamel Falcao and Lionel Messi, who also scooped the World Soccer Player of the Year prize.
"Kompany captained Manchester City last season as they claimed their first league title in 44 years at the expense of rivals Manchester United on the last day of the season."
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I'm a resident of Mexico City, and it took me 1.5 hours to get to work (subway, bus, and 2 taxis) and I must say: although the recent changes in transportation have brought an improvement to our daily commutes, the reality is still that although it is cheap, public transportation in Mexico City is not comfortable, practical, efficient, nor safe (talk about kidnappers in the subway hubs).
I had to laugh at "Now you'd be on a beautiful street, in an ultramodern bus—very clean, absolutely safe". The streets, whether beautiful or not, and the "ultramodern bus" are crowded BEYOND their capacity. The whole city is crowded, wherever you may go, and public transportation is not upgraded to meet the new demands. Honestly the "eco-bikes" can be used on certain touristy neighborhoods, where I can assure most of us do not live, nor we can take them to work. Oh, and the streets are still filled with street vendors, trash, and illegally parked vehicles.


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Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a "paid-for" experience. It's all part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends Jeremy Rifkin. After several hundred years as the dominant organizing paradigm of civilization, the traditional market system is beginning to deconstruct. On the horizon looms the Age of Access, an era radically different from any we have known.
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I have been working at Colgate-Palmolive full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – With the exception of paid time off, good benefits. Lots of training and employee activities. I had an office when I was there but those have been eliminated recently. Some opportunities for overseas assignments especially if you work in Finance.
Cons – Extremely political. One person doesn't like you and you can be gone without knowing what happened. Also, some departments - particularly sales - are the typical "old boys network". Very conservative. Even in the worst heat of summertime, men are expected to wear long sleeve shirts and ties. In some ways felt like high school with all the "cliques" - just look at the cafeteria and how departments have lunch together and talk about other people.
Advice to Senior Management – More emphasis on better managers and people development.
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